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‘Street Fighter’ Is a Big, Silly, Confused 90s Throwback
October 21, 2026
‘Wildwood’ Is the Film LAIKA Was Built to Make
October 20, 2026
‘You Can See Everything’ Is the Documentary of the Decade
October 15, 2026
‘The Social Reckoning’ Is Admirable and Out of Touch
October 14, 2026
Is ‘Digger’ Really A Disaster?
October 12, 2026
Seattle Film Critics Society Announces 2026 Best Pacific Northwest Film Award Nominees
October 9, 2026
‘The Social Reckoning’ Trades Incisive Commentary For Woeful Optimism
October 7, 2026
‘Verity’ Is Light, Semi-Trashy Fun
October 1, 2026
Digger Review: Stunning Spectacle, Hollow at Heart
September 30, 2026
‘Primetime’ Is a Fine Debut with an Outstanding Robert Pattinson Performance
September 24, 2026

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‘Street Fighter’ Is a Big, Silly, Confused 90s Throwback

October 21, 2026

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‘Wildwood’ Is the Film LAIKA Was Built to Make

October 20, 2026

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‘You Can See Everything’ Is the Documentary of the Decade

October 15, 2026

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‘The Social Reckoning’ Is Admirable and Out of Touch

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The Perversion of Progress in ‘Akira’

May 14, 2018

In the closing moments of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, a woodcutter and a priest reconcile as the duo tends to an infant amid the rubble of a dilapidated city. Sunlight pierces a passing storm, illuminating the figures’ resolve towards optimism and progress. With his film, Kurosawa contends for the necessity of…

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Remember Your Name: The Birth of Agency in ‘Spirited Away’

May 10, 2018

For the past two decades, the works of Hayao Miyazaki have rested upon the upper echelons of the most successful anime films of all time. Until the release of Your Name in 2016, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle and most notably, the Oscar-winning Spirited Away remained the highest-grossing films of…

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Dog Bites Leash: The Deconstruction and Persistence of Hierarchy in ‘Isle of Dogs’

April 5, 2018

In 2014, Kornél Mundruczó’s White God toyed with the idea of a canine uprising. Akin to the chaos of societal collapse, the dogs’ reign in the film yielded a social mulligan of sorts the film’s setting, Budapest. Deprived of purpose and deemed pests, the hounds were…

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Ready Player March: An Evening with K.W. Jeter – The Cinematic Schematic #5

March 28, 2018

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2:05 – ‘Sound Trek’ with Alexandra Bohannon – The best of Spielberg directed/produced scores

56:24 – A talk with K.W. Jeter, author of the Blade Runner novel sequels.

The Cinematic Schematic closes out our March theme by celebrating the road to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One with a special episode…

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Underexposed: Steven Spielberg’s Anti-Blockbuster ‘The Sugarland Express’

March 26, 2018

Steven Spielberg is a household name today. Film nerds can tell you the director for just about any movie ever released, but even the most casual of theatergoers, who might otherwise fumble when attempting to tell you who Ingmar Bergman or Jim Jarmusch is, knows Spielberg and his work….

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The Little Automaton: Defining Love in Steven Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’

March 19, 2018

No stranger to family drama, Steven Spielberg consistently finds a way to inject the subject into work regardless of drama. One of the most important scenes of Jaws, for instance, lacks any presence of the titular predator, instead honing in on Martin Brody and his youngest son at the…

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A QUIET PLACE: JOHN KRASINSKI’S HORROR DEBUT DELIVERS SMART SILENT THRILLS – SXSW 2018

March 15, 2018

John Krasinski is a widely admired filmmaker, largely due to his work as Jim Halpert on The Office. He’s written/directed/ produced a couple of endearing films in the past, but he is hardly known as a storyteller with an expertise in the horror genre. That will all change with…

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2018 Oscar Predictions: Caleb’s Picks

March 3, 2018

It’s that time of the year again when film lovers from across the globe gather around their TV screens to watch the Academy Awards. For cinephiles and film nerds this is as close as we get to watching our teams go to the Super Bowl or World Series. The…

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Get Out: A Thrilling Warning Against White Liberalism Body Snatching

February 27, 2018

Most viewers frequent the multiplex to be entertained, escaping the daily woes of their lives. Others attend the multiplex to be challenged, to expand the limited perimeters of their life perspective. But every now and then, a film encompasses both of these qualities, shaking audiences to their core in…

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Mask of the Phantasm: When Opposite-Numbers Attract

February 21, 2018

One of the things I most appreciate about the superhero aesthetic is its ability to take any other genre’s elements and turn them up to eleven. When it comes to the romance genre, one of the oldest adages is “opposites attract.” But what kind of twisted…

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